High Windows Low Doorways
A Multi-playwright Project
19 - 30 March 2014 TAP Gallery
Written by Ellana Costa,
Noelle Janaczewska, Mark Langham,
Jonathan Ari Lander, Melita Rowston,
Katie Pollock, Alison Rooke
With Kit Bennett, Matt Butcher, Alice Keohavong,
Naomi Livingstone, Peter McAllum, Gavin Roach, Helen Tonkin
Director: Paul Gilchrist
Producer: Daniela Giorgi
Sound Design: Ashley Walker
Stage Manager: Tom Massey
Epiphany, euphoria and ecstasy,
those glorious moments when nothing makes sense and it no longer matters.
Dread, despondency and despair,
those painful moments when it seems only too clear.
The second installment of the Table Talk Trilogy,
High Windows Low Doorways
teams writers and actors to tell a tale from the performer's own spiritual experience.
Image by Zorica Purlija
"4 stars... they've shone a sympathetic light upon the lamp
that is the human heart, its fragility and its resilience" Daily Review (Crikey)
"as an exploration and evocation of intense and life changing experiences
it was brilliant...This is little theatre at its best; limited in space
but huge in impact" South Sydney Herald
"the stories are all very well written and performed...
a great production" The Buzz from Sydney
"With an overarching insistence on the highest quality, subtlenuance
give the monologue format a fresh boost... performed to the high standard we have come to expect from subtlenuance, but even more than this, it opens the conversation up about what it is to be spiritual" Lisa Thatcher
"the stories are unique to the actors, translated back by seven different writers with care and dilgence and craft, and then translated once again to the performance realm. And as an audience we're taken with them into the most uncharted and dangerous and moving territories" 5th Wall
"Layered and complex. There's a lot in this show to mull over. I thought it was
beautifully curated and well performed" Theatre From The Back Seat
"The performances were all high quality... easily accessible theatre... entertaining" Arts Hub
"There is a resonance that exists where people dig deep to tell personal stories,
and in High Windows Low Doorways, the cast wants us to hear them,
but the commonality of our experiences also makes us feel heard" Suzy Goes See
Joan,Again
by Paul Gilchrist
5- 23 August 2014 Old FitzTheatre
With Kit Bennett, Jamie Collette, Ted Crosby,
Kitty Hopwood, Lynden Jones, Sylvia Keays,
Bonnie Kellett, David Kirkham,
and Helen Tonkin
Director: Paul Gilchrist
Producer: Daniela Giorgi
Design: Rachel Scane
Lighting Design: Liam O’Keefe
Stage Manager and Sound Design: Tom Massey
In 1431, Joan of Arc was burnt at the stake.
Ten years later she was back.
Inspired by an incredible true story,
subtlenuance explores one of the greatest frauds of all time.
Very funny and deeply moving,
Joan Again
is an uncannily contemporary expose
of truth and lies,
celebrity and identity.
Truth is a battlefield.
Image by Katy Green Loughrey
"An excellent production" Alternative Media
"A brilliant play... that rare piece of theatre that feeds meat to the
general public as well as wine to the passionate theatre nerd" Lisa Thatcher
"A sharp satire... don't miss it... Helen Tonkin is excellent...
casting Sylvia Keays as Joan was a stroke of brilliance, she carries off the
role with a bolshie bravado that is wonderful to watch" The Buzz from Sydney
"An appealing wit at work" Sydney Morning Herald
"a clever, smart, enchanting play" The Spell of Waking Hours
"a dynamic theatre with distinct and colourful personalities
that keep us fascinated" Auditorium Magazine
"hilarious, shrewdly observant and cleverly interwoven" South Sydney Herald
"a playwright of tremendous ability... Gilchrist has outdone himself...
a real feast for any actor to wrap their mouths around
and any audience's ears" Theatre Unzipped
"an absorbing play... a very thoughtful piece of theatre" Theatre from the Backseat